view from the thirteenth floor

21 October 2010

the oldest galaxy

"This is the oldest object we've found yet in space. It's a galaxy whose light traveled more than 13 billion light-years before it was visible to Hubble. And it's only 600 million years younger than the universe itself."
tomitron at 10/21/2010 07:38:00 PM

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